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Instruct supports scientists in exploring their science from helping students understand the core principles of Structural Biology to building a vision of the Grand Challenges our science must resolve.

"Integrated Structural Biology is at a critical stage; failure is not an option..."

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Instruct will foster greater cooperation to encourage innovation, make investments more effective, and improve our ability to solve problems. We build meaningful long-term collaborations with industry and academia that lead to translatable scientific advances.

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Be part of our thriving community of scientists who use integrated structural biology to further the frontiers of science. Help solve the grand challenges facing society by pushing the boundaries of existing scientific disciplines and expertise.

What is Instruct?

Instruct is a pan-European research infrastructure in structural biology, making high-end technologies and methods available to users.

Structural biology is one of the key frameworks on which we interpret molecular and cellular functions. The main experimental technologies are complementary, and increasingly link detailed atomic structure with cellular context.

Structural biology is currently in the middle of a revolution enabled by significant advances in the tools (direct electron detectors in EM, advances in synchrotron sources and detectors, XFELs, ultra-high field NMR, super-resolution cryo-light miscroscopy).

Who can gain access to Instruct infrastructure?

Access to the Instruct infrastructure, expertise and methods is available to all researchers from Instruct Member countries.

Access is granted subject to scientific peer review and is available either:

for basic or pre-competitive research (users agree to publication of data; access is funded by Instruct)

on a service basis for commercial use (user access is on a fee for service basis; no obligation to disclose or publish data)